Clarion 1973-09-14 Vol 49 No 01

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Bethel College, Arden Hills, Minnesota Friday, Sept. 14, 1973
550 new bods ask, "NOW what do we do?"
Welcome Week kicks off school year
by Janet Rutzen and Pam Farr
"Violence!" was Welcome Week staff member Julie Blomquist's description of Sunday night's freshman initiation
ceremony. Traditionally, those among the crowd who are rowdy are selected to perform embarrassing tasks in front of other
freshmen. "If we would have had them do that, they all would have been down there on the floor!" said Julie. "They
flipped me down four steps of bleachers," Lynn Dreesen, another staff member, commented.
The Class of '77 began its Welcome Week activities with Wednesday's opening night "Mixer." This was only one out of
many activities planned for freshmen and transfer students by the '73 Welcome Week Staff. Bev Kiel and John Anderson
headed the 31 member staff.
A standing ovation was given Phil Kitchen Thursday night at his concert. His repertoire included many John Denver
numbers. Variety was provided with the showing of "Airport" Friday evening. "It was more interesting than the concert,"
said Freshman Dan Moser. Becky Starr, a staff member, said, "The reel falling off the projector really added to the success of
the movie!"
The Bethel Fieldhouse was the scene Saturday night of the freshman banquet in place of the usual St. Paul Hilton. The
staff worked from 7 :30 a.m. until dinner time setting the 95 tables and decorating. Explained Becky Starr, "I never worked
so long and so hard in my life, but it sure was worth it." Several original skits covering aspects of Bethel's solitude, sports,
studies, spiritual and social life, each written by Debbie Kiel and Jim Spon, were performed by the staff.
Participants of Monday's all-day picnic had both clothing and spirits dampened by rain, but not enough to halt
activities. After the canoe race, in fact, many found themselves all wet again.
Welcome WeE.k lasted from August 29 to September 3. "It was too long," said Dan Moser, expressing the opinion of
many others, both staff and new students.
Becky Starr felt that her contact with other staff members was very rewarding, but she was disappointed that she
"didn't have more interaction with the individual freshmen themselves." Lynn Dreesen, expressed a similar view when she
said, "It was probably more fun for staff than for anybody else."
Miss Starr sets
housing policy
by Judy Harrington
"A dorm is a community," said Director of Student Housing
(and Dean of Women) Marilyn Starr," and it is our job to see that
the community runs smoothly'"
According to Miss Starr, many of the problems of her job
I arise when students think of themselves as individuals and not in
terms of the larger community. As housing director at Bethel for
two years she has found a general "spirit of disatisfaction" among
both students and their parents in regard to on-campus housing.
She related one incident in which parents of one student called
long distance to inform Miss Starr their child preferred the
color green.
"One complaint we often receive is 'closet space'. Students
just don't have enough room for all their belongings. To tell the
truth, I think many of our students come from fairly affluent
homes and find it difficult to be satisfied with anything we have
to offer," she remarked.
Miss Starr was confronted with several especially difficult
problems in planning this fall's housing.
She explained, " In the first place, the expected number of
new students quoted us by the Admissions Office was under­estimated.
As a result we had to move twelve upper class women,
who had been promised Arden Hills housing, to Hagstrom on the
Snelling campus. We discovered this the last week in August. By
this time, Hagstrom had already been committed to the State
Fair for temporary 4-H housing. We needed the dorm at the very
latest by September 2 and it had been rented through
September 4."
Fortunately many of the State Fair visitors moved out early.
Though all freshman girls are now being housed on the Arden
Hills campus, twelve freshman men were forced to move into
Hagstrom. The remainder of the dorm has been rented to upper
class men, many of whom had made plans for off-campus housing
which "fell through".
In addition, no dorms on the Snelling campus were cleaned
during the summer. The regular summer maintenance staff was
able to clean new campus housing, but a "crash-cleaning crew"
formed to ready old campus housing never came through.
Common complaints Miss Starr receives have to do with
dorm "visitation". Currently, Bethel men and women are
restricted from visiting each other's rooms except during "open­house"
hours on special occasions. Reasons for maintaining this
policy she listed as follows:
1. A bedroom is not for entertainment, and this is essentially
what dorm rooms are.
2. Assuming that all students are normal human beings, all
men and women are vulnerable to sex.
3. The administration has had several problems in this regard
(pt. 2).
4. Every student has his or her own right to privacy.
5. The day of peer pressure is over. If a roommate is dis­gusted
with the constant visits of his or her partner's girlfriend or
boyfriend, he will not complain to his roommate, but to Miss
Starr.
6. There is a place in a Christian community for what is
proper.
"I am tired of having to justify my thoughts at every move
on this policy," commented Miss Starr. "Any thinking student
can figure out why we maintain it."
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To complicate matters in the student housing office, their
filing records were recently switched over to computer
programming. Though it will save record keeping time in the
future, the system now is only making headaches for Mae
Koksma, office secretary.
"When a student wants to change housing," she explained,
"any number of things have to be done. First, we have to find a
vacancy. Houseparents then have to be notified of tentative
changes. All sorts of forms have to be changed for items such as
telephone numbers. And now, of course, the figures will have to
be re-programmed for another print-out of information."
The Student Information Sheet, which was filled out by all
sutdents during registration, will supply the information for these
print outs. It has taken the place of the two or three forms filled
out by students in previous years.
Art Profs
Exhibit Skills
Faculty Art Show Opens
by Ruth Johnson and Barb Watkins
The first art show at Bethel to exhibit the works of teachers
only opened last Friday, September 7, in the gallery of the Fine
Arts Center. The exhibit is meant as an introduction to this
year's art department program and will show the type of thing
the teachers as artists do in their stud,ios.
George Robinson, department head, is showing works he has
done in painting and mixed media. Robinson studied at the
University of Hartford and there earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree.
The sculpture exhibit was done by Stewart Luckman. He
graduated from Bethel in 1961, did graduate work at Macalaster
and the University of Minnesota, and has taught at Bethel for
seven years. "We're proud to be able to do this. It's a great
opportunity for us as artists as well as a good way to start the
year," said Luckman.
Dale Johnson is displaying his paintings, some of which he
has been working on for two or three years. He commented, "I
hope the show will be an encouragement to people around."
Johnson is starting his fourth year at Bethel. He is a graduate
of Western Michigan State and has received his Masters of Fine
Arts degree from Michigan State University.
Ceramics in the show were done by Eugene Johnson, who
has been associated with Bethel College for twenty-six years.
"This art display is intended not to show off ourselves but
the department," Gene stated. "The fact too, that everyone of us
is different, with different ideas, training, background, and media
shows there's a strong feeling for one another to be able to put
on an exhibition like ours."
In addition to his degrees from the University of Southern
California, Bethel Theological Seminary, and University of Iowa,
where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree, Mr. Johnson
has done additional graduate work in New York and Salzburg,
Austria. The Minnesota Musuem and Smith Park National Craft
Festival exhibited previous pieces done by Gene Johnson.
An open invitation has been extended to students, faculty
and the general public to come and see what the art department
is all about.
clarion briefs •••
Chapel Program September 17-21
Monday-Song, scripture, sharing
Tuesday-The father of Professor Justin
Abraham, native pioneer Christian in
India.
Wednesday-The Lamb's Players from
California.
Thursday-"Winning the Peace and losing
the war in Thailand" - a report on
Christian missions after a year of involve­ment
by Dr. Don Larson, our campus
linguist.
Friday-Rev Emmett Johnson, director
of the Minnesota Baptist Conference
Events this Weekend
Soccer at Pillsbury-Saturday
Cross Country Invitational at Macalester­Saturday
Football at home vs. Dakota Wesleyan­Saturday
Spit Band Concert-Saturday night
Coeval, Bethel's literary publication,
is looking for contributions from the
student body also. If you have something
to contribute, or simply would like more
information, please contact Coeval editor
Wayne Pauluk at p.o. 645.
Bethel grad Jim Hammer examines Gene Johnson's latest at Faculty Art Show.
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Dan Peterson, Christian Service direc­tor,
is looking for students who want to
become involved in serving the Lord.
Peterson, in his third year as Christian
Service director, feels that "Bethel stu­dents
should not only be stUdying, but
serving the Lord in some direct way."
Many new and unusual opportunities lie
ahead in Christian Service this year.
This department is often stereotyped
as dealing with churches alone, but the
ministry is actually much broader. Music
teams, coffee-house work, experiences at
camps, tutoring, and counseling are just a
few of the many Christian Service
opportunities.
Some of Dan's plans for the year
include Young Life and Youth for Christ
workers, direct evangelism both door-to­door
and on the street, a trip to Urbana
'73 in Illinois, and weekend outreach
teams in cooperation with the American
Evangelism Association.
Peterson felt that last year was success­ful
because "the student body wanted to
do something for the Lord." Answering
the telephone for the Scott Ross show,
and counseling after the Billy Graham
show, Time to Run, were two of last
year's highlights.
John Priestly served as a church youth
director last year. He said, "I no longer
see my home church as a collection of
hypocritical Christians, and if it is weak,
it is because members my age have
limited their support. While in college
we are experiencing more freedom than
any other time in our lives. Let's make
that count for the Lord by being involved
in some form of Christian Service."
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by Steve Ferrario
This summer 22 Bethel students served
the Lord throughout the world with;
Summer Missionary Project. This out-.'
reach sends students to give their full
time for God's work during the summer.
During a SMP meeting at campus
Pastor Maurice Lawson's home last week,
the students related their missionary
experiences.
Perry Hubbard, went to the World
Gospel Mission in Kenya, Africa. After
starting his missionary trip with an
elephant hunt, he settled down to the
work of the mission. "My time in Kenya
opened my eyes to a whole different
world," he said.
Frankfurt, Germany, was another SMP
spot with three students sent there this
year. Patti Carlson, Peter Enchelmayer
and Eric Tanquist were sent to an
American armed forces base. One of their
big projects was to set up a coffee house
for the servicemen.
Ron Johnson and Judy Harrington
went to Mexico City. There they worked
with 34 other American students in
Gospel witness. They also had a chance
to attend Spanish classes at the Mexican­North
American Cultural Institute.
Sand Point and North Pole Alaska
were also places of SMP ministries this
summer. Lori Jo Wik and John Merritt
went to Sand Point to work in the
Medical Mission there. Lori told of the
need among the men on the island, since
there are only three Christian men in the
community and one of them is the pastor.
John van Gorkom and Steve Ferrario
went to KJNP Radio at the North Pole,
to serve the Lord on-the-air. KJNP is a
50,000 watt AM radio station which
serves the Fairbanks area as well as
interior Alaska. The station plays
Christian music with a message.
Marshall Shelley spent the summer
with Venture for Victory in South
America. The ministry consisted of
playing baseball against national, local,
and college teams and presenting the
Gospel to the crowd before or after the
game.
Many others were summer missionaries
this summer. Among them were Carol
Gunderson, Lynda Gould and Mark
Johnson who worked in inner-city
Brooklyn, New York; Sherrie Dow and
Arla Berry who went to work for the
North Am erican Indian Mission in
Vancouver, British Columbia; Wendel
Stoesz and Barb Veth helped the Alberta
Baptist Conference this summer; and
Jenni Eddy went to the inner-city of
Chicago to work with Spanish speaking
people.
Ron Blomberg went to Honduras to
work with his uncle at a mission. SMP
also sent Tannis Hart to the Florida
Baptist Conference.
Most of the planning and preparation
for this past summer was done by the
1972 SMP'ers with the help of Pastor
Lawson and Dan Peterson, Christian
Service Director. "There have been a
number of small problems", explained
Peterson, "but the Lord has helped us
through another summer."
The meeting last week was called by
the SMP president, Mark Johnson. The
Student Missionaries of 1973 will be
selecting the students for the 1974
project. Basic plans and proposals were
discussed at the meeting.
Funding for the project comes from
offerings taken every Monday in Chapel.
There is also a box for contributions
next to the banking window.
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This year, for the first time, Bethel
students are being asked to actively
participate in raising special funds for the
college. The program, known as Project
B. A. S. I. C. (Business And Students
Improving Campus), was conceived late
last spring by a group of Student Senate
officers concerned with campus improve­ments.
It involves the cooperation of
several Twin Cities' businesses which
would agree to match any student-raised
money with contributions of their own.
The funds raised would then be used to
help improve certain campus facilities.
In a letter to students this summer, Ron
Carlson, student chairman for the project
asked each student to try to raise one
hundred dollars for B.A.S.I.C. by solici­ting
contributions from friends and
relatives. He hoped that local business­men
would be willing to quadruple these
student-raised funds. A goal of fifty
thousand dollars was set for the students.
Bethel College President, Dr. Carl
Lundquist, through whose office Project
B.A.S.lC. is being directed, sees several
possible uses for money which is col­lected.
"We would certainly like to see Chapel
curtains come out of this program, but
there are also plans for improving our
campus lighting, building several tennis
courts, wall decorations, special Drama
and Art department equipment, etc. It all
depends on how much money can be
raised," he said.
According to Mr. David Lissner,
Director of Community Relations for
Bethel, the project is off to a good start
with pledges already received from
McGarvey Coffee, Inc. and Buckbee-Mear
Corp. Within the next few weeks, Mr.
Lissner hopes to have recruited the total
of a two hundred percent pledge, making
each dollar a student raises worth two
dollars in contributions. Mr. Lissner,
however, doubts that enough pledges will
be received to quadruple the student
fund.
Project B.A.S.I.C., which has received
less than one thousand dollars to date,
will continue through the fall, ending at
Homecoming. According to Mr. John
Carlson, Director of Alumni Affairs, some .
of the B.A.S.I.C. funds will be used at
Homecoming on an alumni program along
the theme of "The Greening of Bethel".
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CHRISTIAN
THOUGHTS
by Duane Quinion and Charles Cosgrove
Along with other prominent writers of the day, Os Guinness,
in his book The Dust of Death, has referred to this age in which
we live as "the great refusal." A study of Guinness' observations
concerning specific domestic cultural developments over the
period of the past twenty-five years suggest an admonition to us
concerning our spiritual body here at Bethel College.
This age has its origin in the latter 1940's with the Beat
Movement, which was a reaction to the tragedies of W. W. II,
particularly the devastation of Hiroshima. The emphasis of the
movement was a turning inward for freedom from the violent and
troublesome world. It became a movement entirely experientally
orientated, escaping the problems cf life by the avenues of drugs,
sex, music and poetry.
In 1957 the movement exploded, spreading from the East
coast, where it originated, across the nation to California. This
was characterized by prevalent public poetry reading and the
overnight success of literature connected with the movement. Its
emphasis was entirely different from later movements in that its
writing was characterized by absurdity. Writers rejected the logical,
the practical and the real as defined by society at large. Instead
they assumed an apolitical and anti-intellectual role.
In 1966 the Hippie philosophy began to develop into a
movement which was also a reaction to society. The motive again
was to escape. Their "dropping out" suggested a refusal to
cooperate in and cope with society as it existed.
With 1967 came a reversal of the counter-culture back to
political activism. The combination of the vacuum created by the
failure of the Hippies, and the advent of the Viet Nam conflict,
brought about the New Left. This included the S.D.S., a group
which originally leaned towards pragmatism and constructive ·
activity, appealing to America to live up to the obligations of its
own high standards of equality and morality. This is indeed a
contrast to the present-day S.D.S. whose development has been
plagued by internal disagreement.
The fact that the existence of each of these and other
reactionary groups has been turbulent and short-lived suggests
something very significant. Each of these groups did not have a
solid base of values. These values were neither consistent nor
pragmatic. There was no universally accepted system of values
among any of them. Without a universally accepted system of
values the articulation of universal goals is impossible. Because of
this, the development of an effective and lasting organization was
not feasible. Without consistent values, organization, and goals,
the movements were destined for internal problems and failure.
At Bethel we have assumed the highest system of values
known to man. These are God-given values. Our system of values
is coherent and pragmatic. Also we have a goal to become more
like Jesus every day. With shared values and goals we are a
community organized under God. Therefore, we have a far
greater potenial for an impact for good in the world than any
organization past, present or future. Why are we not more
effective? Are we sincerely concerned with the world in which we
live? Are we concerned about the many problems which our
society faces? Are we even aware? We must begin to take our
Christianity more seriously and fulfill more completely our
obligations to God and to the welfare of the human race which
he has created.
We are told that Christianity is a world-affirming religion not
a world-denying one. This being the case, our prayer is that we
the Bethel community become more aware and concerned about
the problems which face us today and not find ourselves
participants in the age of refusal.
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A case for the defense
No major witness has testified, nor do
any serious commentators believe, that
President Nixon initiated plans for the
Watergate break-in. Yet fully one-fourth
of the American public questioned on the
point have asserted their conviction that
the President did exactly that. However,
we should dismiss such allegations as
dubious and turn our attention to the
coverup, an emminently more debatable
topic. Because Mr. Nixon has not deemed
it necessary to substantially refute, point
by point, the various allegations made
during the Senate hearings, press confer­ences,
and elsewhere, this present effort
will address that task. Also, other
pertinent inconsistancies will be resolved
as they become relevant to the Watergate
affair.
Dean Machine
Mr. Nixon has consistently claimed
that he had no advance knowledge of the
Watergate break-in or of the subsequent
cover-up. He has implied that the office
of the President is unquestionably above
the everyday world of political espionage
and that he, as President, was totally
devoted to running the affairs of the
Nation. Accordingly Mr. Nixon has con­tended
that it was Mr. John Dean who
devised and perpetrated the devious
cover-up. This argument certainly has a
convincing ring. Obviously the planning
and work involved in renovating and
redecorating San Clemente and Key
Biscayne must have involved the Presi­dent
in months of concentrated effort.
The only remaining question is why, Dean
was selected to run the country rather
than Mr. Agnew. Perhaps Mr. Agnew was
too busy in Maryland.
Satisfied with Mr. Nixon's defense, we
can move on to investigate Dean's situa­tion.
Obviously Dean is lying. After all,
he is not the President. Nevertheless, to
satisfy our ever-active consciences, we
should attempt to uncover some sort of
motive behind Dean's perjury. Dean
undoubtedly realizes that his actions may
add years to his forthcoming jail sentence
and that he may have ruined a promising
law career. But one should quickly realize
that some sinister minds would risk any­thing
to join the ranks of such famous
Americans as Alger Hiss and Benedict
Arnold. In addition, any opportunity to
fool those gullible Democrats would hold
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irresistable appeal for a person in Dean's
position and of his political persuasion.
We might add that any testimony from
such diverse sources as L. Patrick Gray,
James McCord, and Henry Peterson,
seeming to corroborate Dean's conten­tions,
should be viewed skeptically in
light of remarks made by such honorable
and distinguished aides as Messrs. H. R.
Haldeman and John Erhlichman.
Credibility Galore
When we realize that the Congress and
the American press corps are for the most
part incorrigible Democrats and inveter­ate
Nixonbaiters, we must caution against
the usefulness of anything they may
have to say on the subject of Watergate.
For example, we have never heard
Sam Ervin or Walter Cronkite vow to
carryon with "God's help" as Mr. Nixon
has. This fact, in itself, is enough to
negate all criticisms of alleged presidential
involvement in the cover-up and other
illegal activities. There are, however, even
more substantial reasons.
First, if Mr. Nixon's name were Ted
Kennedy, we of course would have suf­ficient
cause for doubting his credibility,
and as a result his innocence. To date no
concrete evidence has established this
fact.
Second, as the President and his
associates suggest, the Ellsberg break-in
was perfectly justified under the auspices
of national security. As Mr. Nixon indi­cated
in his speech of August 15, street
rioting in the mid-1960's is perfectly
relevant to national security today. We
should further note that last year volumes
containing portions of the Pentagon
Papers were available in the Bethel Book­store.
Consequently we feel that the
White House should look into this matter
as well. The students at Bethel could use
this sort of protection.
Third, John Mitchell has testified that
he did not alert the President concerning
the coverup because he recognized that
Mr. Nixon "would have hit the ceiling."
Despite statements by crazy Martha to
the contrary, we put our trust in John
whose only crime appears to have been
his constant devotion to the Leader. The
fact that Messrs. Nixon and Mitchell were
onetime best friends should in no way
cast aspersions that Mitchell would lie to
protect the President now and seek a
pardon for himself later.
Finally, the mere fact that the Presi­dent,
in collusion with the Pentagon,
chose to carryon a massive air war in
Cambodia for four years (deceiving a
public which would have strenously
objected) should not cause us to waiver
in our faith. The American public is
perfectly able to recognize that all pos­sible
Administration deception available
was mustered for the Cambodian effort.
Subsequently, none was left for such
matters as unjustified spying or coverup
schemes.
The People's Choice
We must make an appeal for fairness.
If an administration is characterized by
spying and other illegal activities, it does
not necessarily follow that there are cor­rupt
personnel (with the exception of
John Dean) in that administration. It
should be obvious that illegal and un­ethical
actions come, in the present case,
from overzealous and dedicated people
rather than corrupt people. The American
press should be vilified for making any
unjustified allegations against a President
who received one of the largest election
day mandates in American history,
George Gallup notwithstanding.
A President who has achieved inter­national
rapport with the Red Giants,
China and the Soviet Union, and "Peace
with Honor" in Vietnam should not be
bothered with "small, vicious, murky,
unimportant little things" such as Water­gate.
The Senate Committee remains as
the thorn in the President's side. Yet,
here at Bethel College a solution is in
offing. J. & B. suggest that if Mr. Nixon
can convince the man on the street that
the price of meat will fall if Sam Ervin
will layoff Watergate, the hearings will
come to an early conclusion.
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Symposium I:
Conscientious Christianity
This year the Clarion will incorporate
Symposium, an issues discussion forum,
into a bi-weekly feature. To encourage
student body participation in this forum,
the Clarion wishes to solicit topics and
essays from the student body at large.
Topics ranging from the strictly spiritual
to academic or even strictly secular will
be accepted if a clear relationship to the
college community exists. All entries or
comments can be directed to the editor at
p.o. 91 or 820.
At the start of the academic year it is
most useful to pause and seriously con­sider
long-range goals. For this reason the
Clarion has asked three prominent yet
distinct faculty members to render their
thoughts on the matter. Looking forward
we reflect first upon our past and deter­mine
to preserve the most rewarding ele­ments
of it. What areas of Christian
higher education need to be reaffirmed?
Which values are eternal, unchanging, and
as a result, desirable for the Bethel
community? How can personal growth be
accelerated and enriched? Equally impor­tant,
what other considerations (however
unfamiliar) may also carry crucial bearing
for a student's consistent witness? It is,
then, in the spirit of a more unified
student body that we embark on the
questions at hand as a basis upon which
to build a truly meaningful Christian
dialogue.
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by Maurice Lawson, Campus Pastor
A Christian liberal arts college is a bold
undertaking, and for it to succeed is most
rare. On the one hand are the large
number of private colleges and universi­ties
that have failed in that they have lost
the Christian faith that once was their
reason for being. On the other hand are
the more recently established Christian
colleges that nervously guard their faith
but fail to be liberal arts. How many
colleges can you name that are truly
Christian and truly liberal arts?
But the people of the Baptist General
Conference believe that it is both
desirable and possible to succeed. And we
who are parts of Bethel concur.
The problem, it seems to me, is that
we tend to want easy and final answers to
our questions. The Christian part of us
says our answers come from God. The
liberal arts part of us says they come
from man. We assume there is a conflict
and choose which voice we will listen to
and reject the other.
Actually, the mature man must be
willing to live in tension. Only the drawn
bow can shoot a straight arrow. There is
the tension between the conviction that
Christ is the truth and "in Him are hid all
the treasures of wisdom ... ", and the
rational, scientific approach. There is the
tension between the need to call men
from sin and death to eternal life in
Christ, and the pressing, immediate needs
of man in his earth life. There is the call
on the one hand to "deny ourselves, take
up our cross and follow · Jesus", and the
assurance that God "has given us all
things to enjoy." There is the conflict
between freedom and responsibility.
Failure to acknowledge the legitimate
existence of these tensions results in
settling for half truths which is altogether
error. We fall into antagonistic groups­the
intellectuals and the spiritual, the
pleasure-lovers and the ascetics, the
socially concerned and the soul-winners.
And we compartmentalize our own lives,
living at various times and occasions in
room that bear those labels. And we
become a Bible college or a secular
college.
The better way, it seems to me, is the
way we are trying to approach the
problem at Bethel. We begin as Christians
with the convicton that this is God's
world, and therefore a universe-that
when all the facts are known truth will
be seen to have one face. Then we assume
the posture of zealous but humble
learners. We do all we can to increase our
knowledge of God and His ways and His
world through consistent study of the
Word of God, and through the cultivation
of our experience and knowledge of Him
through the enjoyment of His presence
and obedience to His will. At the same
time, we study the world in which we
live, and man both as an individual and
in society, and the wisdom of man both
past and present. Willing to live often in
the tension that comes from acknow­ledging
truth in apparently conflicting
propositions, reJOicmg in the occasions
when harmony is achieved, we study to
show ourselves approved unto God. And
in the process we find a deeper unity
within ourselves and within our campus.
In all of this, our perfect example is
Jesus.
******
by Robert A. Carlsen
Assoc. Prof. of Physics
What areas of Christian higher educa­tion
need to be reaffirmed? One principle
of "examinationmanship" is: "If you
don't understand the question, write your
own interpretation of the original
problem statement and then proceed to
answer it." Therefore, one might contem­plate
education, increase its dimension­ality
by adjoining the adjective Christian,
and then ask if this additional considera­tion
makes a difference. This is from a
perspective of twenty years of profes­sional
life, the last five being committed
to Bethel. The bias, obviously, is from
that of a physical scientist.
An education is, more than anything
else, a discipline of the central nervous
system (i.e. the brain) and sometimes the
supportive anatomy which allows one the
facility to grind it out even when it hurts.
This means the acquisition and mainte­ance
of skills at least at parity with one's
associates, the ability as well as desire to
synthesize fragmentary and seeming
unrelated facets of past technical experi­ence
into the context of the present
problem, and a confidence that allows for
the ferreting out of results and conclu­sions
once they boil to the surface. Also,
implicit in all of this, is an understanding
of the ground rules of the scientific com­munity
of which you are a member.
For example, don't extrapolate the
prestige earned in one area to another,
avoid taking credit for subordinate's
work, don't fudge experimental data, and
many other conventions that must be
followed by both Christian and secular
scientist alike.
The Christian scientist brings to all of
this a quality of life, which is reflected by
the fact that his ultimate loyalty is not,
say, to the Copenhagen interpretation of
quantum mechanics but rather the
Christian gospel and the claims of Christ
on his life. Does it make a difference?
One would hope so. Just as a Christian
teacher should be kind to his students
and cooperative with his associates per­haps
what it means to be a Christian
physicist is to be able to stand in the
cross currents between the pure mathe­maticians
on the one hand and the
rna thematics users (physicists, engi­neers,
... ) on the other and thereby
contribute to healing the antagonism
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between these two groups of people.
There is no basis, at least to this practi­tioner,
to support the claim that a
Christian scientist will be given special
insight but he will be blessed with the
knowledge that the issues of life are not
totally bound up in his discipline.
******
by G. William Carlson
Asst. Prof. of Political Science
The term "Bethel community" is
often used to describe the nature of the
relationships between faculty and stu­dents
and between students and students.
Much of the time I feel it is artificially
used to manufacture a concept of rela­tionships
which are not there and prob­ably
never will be. It often includes:
avoidance of divergent viewpoints, con­sensus
of leadership and direction,
minimization of academic involvement and
the primacy of spiritual experiences,
minimization of academic risk-taking and
conformity to an interpretation of the
life-style implications of the Christian
faith. It assumes that we can have "com­munity"
by avoiding and eliminating
involvement with all those issues which
demand uniqueness in perception.
We are not a church and we are not
enjoying a "camp-type" mountain top
experience. We are an association of
scholars who bring to the campus unique
personalities, varied commitments to
academic interests and distinct percep-tions
of the true meanings of the Christ
experience. The forced "community"
perception of our relationships may tend
to create artificial divisions on the
campus. A sense of community may
come out of a voluntary, joyous expres­sion
of each other. If it does, be glad and
rejoice in the time in which it occurs.
Don't try to prolong it and don't expect
it to be the mainstream characteristic of
human relationships. Since the sense of
community is not available to most of
us, let me suggest some principles which
may help make more meaningful our
relationships as committed Christian
scholars.
First, each of us must be willing to use
enough self-discipline to be able to in­crease
in learning and thereby have some­thing
to communicate. This involves
serious interaction with all sources of
learning and a willingness to search out
the implications of what we know.
Second, each of us must develop a
sense of integrity toward ourselves, our
academic pursuits and to others. The
issue of integrity has numerous implica­tions.
Let me say simply that I use the
term to refer to a willingness to expose
that part of yourself and your know­ledge
which is helpful to the mutual
growth of people to whom you are
relating. This demands that the recipient
also reciprocate and respect the value of
the life shared.
Third, there needs to be developed a
tolerance of different personalities and
viewpoints each of which must be
seriously searched and analyzed. Often,
we have the good ability to isolate the
weak points of divergent positions and
thereby assert a basis from which to
reject the mainstream implications of the
divergent positions. Tolerance demands a
respect for other's uniqueness and the
development of serious dialogue based on
mutual concern and understanding.
Fourth, we need to search out the
ethical implications of our religious com��mitments
and encourage each other to act
in light of the answers we find. To my
mind it is this last principle which pro­vides
us the basis of meeting together as
an association of scholars. We are com­mitted
scholars who must face questions
that the secular community may not find
it essential to ask. However, in order to
ask the ethical questions well, we must
take seriously the first three principles.
To what end? I think if we adopt these
principles we will have a more meaningful
relationship with each other. Let us not
force community on ourselves. Let us
develop instead a series of life-style
principles which allow us to respect and
encourage our uniqueness as Christian
persons. Let us become prophetic
witnesses to a world without Christ.
** ****
Soccer's new coach inspires team
by Pam Schultz
"My head feels like a marshmallow
when practice is over, but he's great,"
Steve Jergenson, Bethel Junior, said
about Juan Salas, Bethel's new soccer
coach. And one can see why when sitting
through a typical soccer practice and
warm-up. The short Bolivian coach keeps
the team moving from beginning to end
with various drills. And he is there among
them, participating as strenuously in the
discipline as they are.
"He works us like a professional team
because he is a professional," commented
Peter Genheimer, Bethel Junior. Mr. Salas
has a ten year record as a professional
soccer player in Bolivia. He is currently a
member of the Minnesota Soccer Referee
Association. Add to this a college degree
in Physical Education and you have a
man who is well qualified to lead the new
varsity soccer team to victory.
Mr. Salas would be the first to admit
that there will be challenges facing the
new Bethel team. "We have a special
problem," he said in English heavily
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accented with Spanish tones. "The season
is a short one, two months, and we have
an even shorter practice season. Many of
our state-wide boys have not had the
background in soccer playing that is
necessary. "
He would like to see a program started
at Bethel in which players could practice
three, four or five months a year. This
would allow for B teams and an enhanced
interest in the game of soccer.
Steve Voth, the team's captain, ad­mitted
that this year's team may not be
as good individually, as that of last year.
One of the reasons for this is the loss of
four good players: Joel Goff, John
Landberg, Dick Voth and Jon Nordstrom
(who was voted best goalie in the state
last year).
Even yet, Bethel has many assets. A
good percentage of the team is composed
of students from other countries who
have played soccer from childhood.
Salas is confident of the team. He
commented that the offense appears
strong. Morale this year is high. Steve
Jergenson gave credit for this to the
coach. "He works us hard but he cares
about us". Steve went on to tell of an
experience at the first practice. "We were
really dead after that first practice but he
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had us stand all in line for a few minutes.
Then he went down the row and talked to
each of us individually."
Juan Salas and his wife and children
are very active in the Spanish speaking
ch urch connected with Be thlehem
Baptist. Mr. Salas commented that he
knew as a friend in Argentina one of the
men who first began the church. They
helped to organize it and the Salas family
continues to attend there.
When asked wqat brought him to the
United States and Minnesota in partiCUlar
Juan Salas laughed. "Well," he said
smiling, "My wife lived up here before we
were married. She came down to Bolivia
on vacation, where we met. And when we
decided to marry she said that I had to
come back up here with her."
"We want to do our best for soccer
and our best for Bethel," said Juan Salas.
"I expect a good year."
The team expects a good year, too.
One of their reasons is Juan Salas. As
Steve Voth commented, "He is excel­lent.
"
New Soccer players will be: Hideo
Nishihata, Tefen Fufa, Tim Leafblad,
Mike Floding, Scott Smith, Tim Herzoog,
Len Alberg, Pete Wilson, Dave Mortenson,
Paul Lentz. Those coming back: Steve
Jergenson, Steve Voth, Dan Leafblad,
Dan Anderson, Jeff Smicale, Thomas
Heinmetz, Alan Vogel, Peter Genheimer.
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runs
saturday
by W. T. Hanley
This season's cross-country team
promises to be one of the strongest in
years. Coach Gene Glader acknowledges
that a tough schedule is in store for the
runners, but that he still sees a good
year ahead.
"We've got five of the six strongest
runners from last year's squad returning,
as well as five new Freshmen," said the
coach.
He looks for three of the new
members in particular to be superior
squad members.
"Scott Anderson, John Cox and Larry
Caldwell all should prove to be real assets
to this year's team. They can really help
to round out the squad," he explained.
The first official test of this year's
runners comes tommorrow in a contest
with Augsburg, Carleton, Macalester and
Luther Colleges. Meet time is 11 a.m. at
the Como Park Course.
I. M. ACTION
by Dean Erickson
A wise old sage once declared, "Old
high school 'jocks' never die, they merely
evolve into college intramural zealots".
Surely the phophet's words have been
fulfilled in the Bethel College intramural
program. While affording opportunities
for former prep stars to extend their
athletic careers, the intramural program
also provides for those lacking in
organized sports experience an occasion
for athletic participation.
The ideal of 100% participation by
college students is of prime importance to
the intramural staff. While male college
students comprise the bulk of the
participants, the intramural program has
developed to include competetive
activities for women as well. Intramural
participation also extends to the facilty
and staff as they have consistently fielded
competitive teams.
The move to the Arden Hills campus
has implied another important goal. Dee
Traudt, intramural student supervisor
commented, "The intramural program
will try to make use of all the new
facilities the new campus affords." The
spacious gymnasium and the excellent
handball courts, as well as the wide open
spaces of the campus, offer support to
this goal.
A most radical departure from
intramural tradition has been necessitated
by Bethel's move to the Arden Hills
campus. The basis for team membership
has shifted from primarily Edgren dormi­tory
teams to residencies including both
campuses as well as off-campus. Thus, an
almost wholesale shift of team personnel
has resulted. The ten teams based on new
residency requirements include: Town­house
No. 1 (townhouses J and K),
Townhouse No.2 (townhouses Land M),
Townhouse No.3 (townhouses I and N),
Edgren No. 1 (floors 1 and 3), Edgren
No.2 (floor 2), Hagstrom, New Dorm,
Faculty, Off-Campus No. 1 (those living
south of 1-694), and Off-Campus No.2
(those living north of 1-694). Alas, but no
more will cries of "wipe Third Old!" arise
from the lips of Second Newer's, nor will
the meticulously-built well-oiled machine
of Second Old flawlessly function.
Along with a revised format of teams,
the 1973-74 intramural program will
provide several innovative features. The
initial change to be encountered this fall
will be in the transition from touch foot­ball
to flag football. A more wide-open
style of play, increased scoring and
greater ease in offioiating were the basic
reasons for the alteration according to
Traudt and Paul Reasoner, assistant
supervisor. Also, after much deliberation
the "sleeper" play has been deemed legal
and should add eye-opening excitement
to the game. Homecoming this fall will
offer a classic gridiron clash, as the
intramural All-Stars of years past will
challenge the All-Stars of the present
season on October 20, 8 :30 A.M.
Basketball, the most popular intra­mural
activity, will begin November 19.
The earlier first semester opening wHl be
a departure from the usual second
semester scheduling of the past several
years. The intramural basketball season
will be augmented by extramural contests
featuring Bethel intramural All-Stars
opposing like teams from Hamline,
Concordia and Augsburg colleges in a
Bethel-hosted tourney. Upon completion
of the intercollegiate basketball season,
an open intramural basketball league with
teams sponsered by varsity basketball
players should materialize.
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by Curt Kregness
The Bethel Royals bowed to Macalester Saturday in their
first regular season football contest. Although Bethel held the
edge in statistics, Macalester capitalized on four interceptions and
one Bethel fumble to win the game 30-3.
The Royals scored in the first three minutes of the game
when they recovered a Macalester fumble on the first play after
the opening kickoff. A field goal attempt was good, and put the
Royals ahead 3-0.
Later in the first quarter, as the Royals were forced to punt,
a high snap from center got away from the punter, and Macalester
recovered the ball deep in Bethel's territory. Macalester scored
their first touchdown on the next play, but failed their point­after
attempt, to make the score 6-3.
In the second quarter, Macalester scored three touchdowns
with the help of an interception and a recovered Royals' fumble.
Their fifth touchdown came in the third quarter, several plays
after intercepting another Bethel pass.
The Royals had trouble keeping the ball and making the
crucial play, in spite of snaring two Macalester fumbles and one
pass. Bethel gained 17 first downs to Macalester's 8, but was
unable to move the ball into scoring position after their first
quarter field goal.
The Royals' next game is at Bethel against Dakota Wesleyan,
Saturday at 1 :30.
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by John Merritt
Is it possible to lose 30 to 3 and still be a winner? Let's face
the facts. Bethel has a physically stronger and bigger team this
year. However, we still do not match up ounce to ounce with
many of our opponents. But who will be the winner this season­the
200 pound Bethel lineman who puts out all of his 100%
ability the whole game or his 225 pound opponent who only has
to put out 50% because of his physical advantage and whose team
is able to compile more points on the scoreboard?
You can be sure that the Bethel players were giving 100%
last Saturday evening against Mac, and because of this they were
winners. Why did the scoreboard seem to deny this fact? There
are many factors involved in the game of football. Breaks very
often win a game. Obviously the breaks were not to Bethel's
advantage Saturday evening, but I'm not making excuses and
neither is Coach Reynolds. He'll tell you the simple truth which
many people don't understand: the same amount of effort goes
into a ball game whether you win or lose.
I know of one guy who has as strong a desire to win as
anybody. I don't know if you noticed who led the charge of the
defense Saturday evening onto the field with a clenched fist held
high in the air and screams of high-spirited determination. It was
just the kind of guy I've been talking about - a guy who gives
100% and who played an outstanding opening game. Because of
his physically small frame for a lineman (180 pounds), he tells
me that rigorous physical conditioning' has been a part of his life.
This summer he worked out consistently for two hours every
morning running sprints wearing ankle weights for quickness,
running the mile for endurance, and lifting weights for overall
strength. Yes, Fred Witzgall knows the discipline it takes to be an
athlete giving 100%. You'll see more of him this season making
bruising tackles and sporting sparkling defensive plays. Fred's a
winner at what he does.
You see, the Bethel players have learned to believe in each
other. The other ten guys on defense know that Fred at 180
pounds will do his job as right tackle even against a guy with a 40
pound advantage. This is what binds a team together and the
Royals have this spirit. Everyone likes to win - it's much tougher
to lose - and the people hardest hit by this are the players. No one
can say the Royals are losers. This Saturday let's see Dakota
Wesleyan bite the dust.
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Vol. 49 No.1
Bethel College, Arden Hills, Minnesota Friday, Sept. 14, 1973
550 new bods ask, "NOW what do we do?"
Welcome Week kicks off school year
by Janet Rutzen and Pam Farr
"Violence!" was Welcome Week staff member Julie Blomquist's description of Sunday night's freshman initiation
ceremony. Traditionally, those among the crowd who are rowdy are selected to perform embarrassing tasks in front of other
freshmen. "If we would have had them do that, they all would have been down there on the floor!" said Julie. "They
flipped me down four steps of bleachers," Lynn Dreesen, another staff member, commented.
The Class of '77 began its Welcome Week activities with Wednesday's opening night "Mixer." This was only one out of
many activities planned for freshmen and transfer students by the '73 Welcome Week Staff. Bev Kiel and John Anderson
headed the 31 member staff.
A standing ovation was given Phil Kitchen Thursday night at his concert. His repertoire included many John Denver
numbers. Variety was provided with the showing of "Airport" Friday evening. "It was more interesting than the concert,"
said Freshman Dan Moser. Becky Starr, a staff member, said, "The reel falling off the projector really added to the success of
the movie!"
The Bethel Fieldhouse was the scene Saturday night of the freshman banquet in place of the usual St. Paul Hilton. The
staff worked from 7 :30 a.m. until dinner time setting the 95 tables and decorating. Explained Becky Starr, "I never worked
so long and so hard in my life, but it sure was worth it." Several original skits covering aspects of Bethel's solitude, sports,
studies, spiritual and social life, each written by Debbie Kiel and Jim Spon, were performed by the staff.
Participants of Monday's all-day picnic had both clothing and spirits dampened by rain, but not enough to halt
activities. After the canoe race, in fact, many found themselves all wet again.
Welcome WeE.k lasted from August 29 to September 3. "It was too long," said Dan Moser, expressing the opinion of
many others, both staff and new students.
Becky Starr felt that her contact with other staff members was very rewarding, but she was disappointed that she
"didn't have more interaction with the individual freshmen themselves." Lynn Dreesen, expressed a similar view when she
said, "It was probably more fun for staff than for anybody else."
Miss Starr sets
housing policy
by Judy Harrington
"A dorm is a community," said Director of Student Housing
(and Dean of Women) Marilyn Starr," and it is our job to see that
the community runs smoothly'"
According to Miss Starr, many of the problems of her job
I arise when students think of themselves as individuals and not in
terms of the larger community. As housing director at Bethel for
two years she has found a general "spirit of disatisfaction" among
both students and their parents in regard to on-campus housing.
She related one incident in which parents of one student called
long distance to inform Miss Starr their child preferred the
color green.
"One complaint we often receive is 'closet space'. Students
just don't have enough room for all their belongings. To tell the
truth, I think many of our students come from fairly affluent
homes and find it difficult to be satisfied with anything we have
to offer," she remarked.
Miss Starr was confronted with several especially difficult
problems in planning this fall's housing.
She explained, " In the first place, the expected number of
new students quoted us by the Admissions Office was under­estimated.
As a result we had to move twelve upper class women,
who had been promised Arden Hills housing, to Hagstrom on the
Snelling campus. We discovered this the last week in August. By
this time, Hagstrom had already been committed to the State
Fair for temporary 4-H housing. We needed the dorm at the very
latest by September 2 and it had been rented through
September 4."
Fortunately many of the State Fair visitors moved out early.
Though all freshman girls are now being housed on the Arden
Hills campus, twelve freshman men were forced to move into
Hagstrom. The remainder of the dorm has been rented to upper
class men, many of whom had made plans for off-campus housing
which "fell through".
In addition, no dorms on the Snelling campus were cleaned
during the summer. The regular summer maintenance staff was
able to clean new campus housing, but a "crash-cleaning crew"
formed to ready old campus housing never came through.
Common complaints Miss Starr receives have to do with
dorm "visitation". Currently, Bethel men and women are
restricted from visiting each other's rooms except during "open­house"
hours on special occasions. Reasons for maintaining this
policy she listed as follows:
1. A bedroom is not for entertainment, and this is essentially
what dorm rooms are.
2. Assuming that all students are normal human beings, all
men and women are vulnerable to sex.
3. The administration has had several problems in this regard
(pt. 2).
4. Every student has his or her own right to privacy.
5. The day of peer pressure is over. If a roommate is dis­gusted
with the constant visits of his or her partner's girlfriend or
boyfriend, he will not complain to his roommate, but to Miss
Starr.
6. There is a place in a Christian community for what is
proper.
"I am tired of having to justify my thoughts at every move
on this policy," commented Miss Starr. "Any thinking student
can figure out why we maintain it."
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To complicate matters in the student housing office, their
filing records were recently switched over to computer
programming. Though it will save record keeping time in the
future, the system now is only making headaches for Mae
Koksma, office secretary.
"When a student wants to change housing," she explained,
"any number of things have to be done. First, we have to find a
vacancy. Houseparents then have to be notified of tentative
changes. All sorts of forms have to be changed for items such as
telephone numbers. And now, of course, the figures will have to
be re-programmed for another print-out of information."
The Student Information Sheet, which was filled out by all
sutdents during registration, will supply the information for these
print outs. It has taken the place of the two or three forms filled
out by students in previous years.
Art Profs
Exhibit Skills
Faculty Art Show Opens
by Ruth Johnson and Barb Watkins
The first art show at Bethel to exhibit the works of teachers
only opened last Friday, September 7, in the gallery of the Fine
Arts Center. The exhibit is meant as an introduction to this
year's art department program and will show the type of thing
the teachers as artists do in their stud,ios.
George Robinson, department head, is showing works he has
done in painting and mixed media. Robinson studied at the
University of Hartford and there earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree.
The sculpture exhibit was done by Stewart Luckman. He
graduated from Bethel in 1961, did graduate work at Macalaster
and the University of Minnesota, and has taught at Bethel for
seven years. "We're proud to be able to do this. It's a great
opportunity for us as artists as well as a good way to start the
year," said Luckman.
Dale Johnson is displaying his paintings, some of which he
has been working on for two or three years. He commented, "I
hope the show will be an encouragement to people around."
Johnson is starting his fourth year at Bethel. He is a graduate
of Western Michigan State and has received his Masters of Fine
Arts degree from Michigan State University.
Ceramics in the show were done by Eugene Johnson, who
has been associated with Bethel College for twenty-six years.
"This art display is intended not to show off ourselves but
the department," Gene stated. "The fact too, that everyone of us
is different, with different ideas, training, background, and media
shows there's a strong feeling for one another to be able to put
on an exhibition like ours."
In addition to his degrees from the University of Southern
California, Bethel Theological Seminary, and University of Iowa,
where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree, Mr. Johnson
has done additional graduate work in New York and Salzburg,
Austria. The Minnesota Musuem and Smith Park National Craft
Festival exhibited previous pieces done by Gene Johnson.
An open invitation has been extended to students, faculty
and the general public to come and see what the art department
is all about.
clarion briefs •••
Chapel Program September 17-21
Monday-Song, scripture, sharing
Tuesday-The father of Professor Justin
Abraham, native pioneer Christian in
India.
Wednesday-The Lamb's Players from
California.
Thursday-"Winning the Peace and losing
the war in Thailand" - a report on
Christian missions after a year of involve­ment
by Dr. Don Larson, our campus
linguist.
Friday-Rev Emmett Johnson, director
of the Minnesota Baptist Conference
Events this Weekend
Soccer at Pillsbury-Saturday
Cross Country Invitational at Macalester­Saturday
Football at home vs. Dakota Wesleyan­Saturday
Spit Band Concert-Saturday night
Coeval, Bethel's literary publication,
is looking for contributions from the
student body also. If you have something
to contribute, or simply would like more
information, please contact Coeval editor
Wayne Pauluk at p.o. 645.
Bethel grad Jim Hammer examines Gene Johnson's latest at Faculty Art Show.
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by Cindy Hillegas
Dan Peterson, Christian Service direc­tor,
is looking for students who want to
become involved in serving the Lord.
Peterson, in his third year as Christian
Service director, feels that "Bethel stu­dents
should not only be stUdying, but
serving the Lord in some direct way."
Many new and unusual opportunities lie
ahead in Christian Service this year.
This department is often stereotyped
as dealing with churches alone, but the
ministry is actually much broader. Music
teams, coffee-house work, experiences at
camps, tutoring, and counseling are just a
few of the many Christian Service
opportunities.
Some of Dan's plans for the year
include Young Life and Youth for Christ
workers, direct evangelism both door-to­door
and on the street, a trip to Urbana
'73 in Illinois, and weekend outreach
teams in cooperation with the American
Evangelism Association.
Peterson felt that last year was success­ful
because "the student body wanted to
do something for the Lord." Answering
the telephone for the Scott Ross show,
and counseling after the Billy Graham
show, Time to Run, were two of last
year's highlights.
John Priestly served as a church youth
director last year. He said, "I no longer
see my home church as a collection of
hypocritical Christians, and if it is weak,
it is because members my age have
limited their support. While in college
we are experiencing more freedom than
any other time in our lives. Let's make
that count for the Lord by being involved
in some form of Christian Service."
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This summer 22 Bethel students served
the Lord throughout the world with;
Summer Missionary Project. This out-.'
reach sends students to give their full
time for God's work during the summer.
During a SMP meeting at campus
Pastor Maurice Lawson's home last week,
the students related their missionary
experiences.
Perry Hubbard, went to the World
Gospel Mission in Kenya, Africa. After
starting his missionary trip with an
elephant hunt, he settled down to the
work of the mission. "My time in Kenya
opened my eyes to a whole different
world," he said.
Frankfurt, Germany, was another SMP
spot with three students sent there this
year. Patti Carlson, Peter Enchelmayer
and Eric Tanquist were sent to an
American armed forces base. One of their
big projects was to set up a coffee house
for the servicemen.
Ron Johnson and Judy Harrington
went to Mexico City. There they worked
with 34 other American students in
Gospel witness. They also had a chance
to attend Spanish classes at the Mexican­North
American Cultural Institute.
Sand Point and North Pole Alaska
were also places of SMP ministries this
summer. Lori Jo Wik and John Merritt
went to Sand Point to work in the
Medical Mission there. Lori told of the
need among the men on the island, since
there are only three Christian men in the
community and one of them is the pastor.
John van Gorkom and Steve Ferrario
went to KJNP Radio at the North Pole,
to serve the Lord on-the-air. KJNP is a
50,000 watt AM radio station which
serves the Fairbanks area as well as
interior Alaska. The station plays
Christian music with a message.
Marshall Shelley spent the summer
with Venture for Victory in South
America. The ministry consisted of
playing baseball against national, local,
and college teams and presenting the
Gospel to the crowd before or after the
game.
Many others were summer missionaries
this summer. Among them were Carol
Gunderson, Lynda Gould and Mark
Johnson who worked in inner-city
Brooklyn, New York; Sherrie Dow and
Arla Berry who went to work for the
North Am erican Indian Mission in
Vancouver, British Columbia; Wendel
Stoesz and Barb Veth helped the Alberta
Baptist Conference this summer; and
Jenni Eddy went to the inner-city of
Chicago to work with Spanish speaking
people.
Ron Blomberg went to Honduras to
work with his uncle at a mission. SMP
also sent Tannis Hart to the Florida
Baptist Conference.
Most of the planning and preparation
for this past summer was done by the
1972 SMP'ers with the help of Pastor
Lawson and Dan Peterson, Christian
Service Director. "There have been a
number of small problems", explained
Peterson, "but the Lord has helped us
through another summer."
The meeting last week was called by
the SMP president, Mark Johnson. The
Student Missionaries of 1973 will be
selecting the students for the 1974
project. Basic plans and proposals were
discussed at the meeting.
Funding for the project comes from
offerings taken every Monday in Chapel.
There is also a box for contributions
next to the banking window.
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This year, for the first time, Bethel
students are being asked to actively
participate in raising special funds for the
college. The program, known as Project
B. A. S. I. C. (Business And Students
Improving Campus), was conceived late
last spring by a group of Student Senate
officers concerned with campus improve­ments.
It involves the cooperation of
several Twin Cities' businesses which
would agree to match any student-raised
money with contributions of their own.
The funds raised would then be used to
help improve certain campus facilities.
In a letter to students this summer, Ron
Carlson, student chairman for the project
asked each student to try to raise one
hundred dollars for B.A.S.I.C. by solici­ting
contributions from friends and
relatives. He hoped that local business­men
would be willing to quadruple these
student-raised funds. A goal of fifty
thousand dollars was set for the students.
Bethel College President, Dr. Carl
Lundquist, through whose office Project
B.A.S.lC. is being directed, sees several
possible uses for money which is col­lected.
"We would certainly like to see Chapel
curtains come out of this program, but
there are also plans for improving our
campus lighting, building several tennis
courts, wall decorations, special Drama
and Art department equipment, etc. It all
depends on how much money can be
raised," he said.
According to Mr. David Lissner,
Director of Community Relations for
Bethel, the project is off to a good start
with pledges already received from
McGarvey Coffee, Inc. and Buckbee-Mear
Corp. Within the next few weeks, Mr.
Lissner hopes to have recruited the total
of a two hundred percent pledge, making
each dollar a student raises worth two
dollars in contributions. Mr. Lissner,
however, doubts that enough pledges will
be received to quadruple the student
fund.
Project B.A.S.I.C., which has received
less than one thousand dollars to date,
will continue through the fall, ending at
Homecoming. According to Mr. John
Carlson, Director of Alumni Affairs, some .
of the B.A.S.I.C. funds will be used at
Homecoming on an alumni program along
the theme of "The Greening of Bethel".
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CHRISTIAN
THOUGHTS
by Duane Quinion and Charles Cosgrove
Along with other prominent writers of the day, Os Guinness,
in his book The Dust of Death, has referred to this age in which
we live as "the great refusal." A study of Guinness' observations
concerning specific domestic cultural developments over the
period of the past twenty-five years suggest an admonition to us
concerning our spiritual body here at Bethel College.
This age has its origin in the latter 1940's with the Beat
Movement, which was a reaction to the tragedies of W. W. II,
particularly the devastation of Hiroshima. The emphasis of the
movement was a turning inward for freedom from the violent and
troublesome world. It became a movement entirely experientally
orientated, escaping the problems cf life by the avenues of drugs,
sex, music and poetry.
In 1957 the movement exploded, spreading from the East
coast, where it originated, across the nation to California. This
was characterized by prevalent public poetry reading and the
overnight success of literature connected with the movement. Its
emphasis was entirely different from later movements in that its
writing was characterized by absurdity. Writers rejected the logical,
the practical and the real as defined by society at large. Instead
they assumed an apolitical and anti-intellectual role.
In 1966 the Hippie philosophy began to develop into a
movement which was also a reaction to society. The motive again
was to escape. Their "dropping out" suggested a refusal to
cooperate in and cope with society as it existed.
With 1967 came a reversal of the counter-culture back to
political activism. The combination of the vacuum created by the
failure of the Hippies, and the advent of the Viet Nam conflict,
brought about the New Left. This included the S.D.S., a group
which originally leaned towards pragmatism and constructive ·
activity, appealing to America to live up to the obligations of its
own high standards of equality and morality. This is indeed a
contrast to the present-day S.D.S. whose development has been
plagued by internal disagreement.
The fact that the existence of each of these and other
reactionary groups has been turbulent and short-lived suggests
something very significant. Each of these groups did not have a
solid base of values. These values were neither consistent nor
pragmatic. There was no universally accepted system of values
among any of them. Without a universally accepted system of
values the articulation of universal goals is impossible. Because of
this, the development of an effective and lasting organization was
not feasible. Without consistent values, organization, and goals,
the movements were destined for internal problems and failure.
At Bethel we have assumed the highest system of values
known to man. These are God-given values. Our system of values
is coherent and pragmatic. Also we have a goal to become more
like Jesus every day. With shared values and goals we are a
community organized under God. Therefore, we have a far
greater potenial for an impact for good in the world than any
organization past, present or future. Why are we not more
effective? Are we sincerely concerned with the world in which we
live? Are we concerned about the many problems which our
society faces? Are we even aware? We must begin to take our
Christianity more seriously and fulfill more completely our
obligations to God and to the welfare of the human race which
he has created.
We are told that Christianity is a world-affirming religion not
a world-denying one. This being the case, our prayer is that we
the Bethel community become more aware and concerned about
the problems which face us today and not find ourselves
participants in the age of refusal.
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A case for the defense
No major witness has testified, nor do
any serious commentators believe, that
President Nixon initiated plans for the
Watergate break-in. Yet fully one-fourth
of the American public questioned on the
point have asserted their conviction that
the President did exactly that. However,
we should dismiss such allegations as
dubious and turn our attention to the
coverup, an emminently more debatable
topic. Because Mr. Nixon has not deemed
it necessary to substantially refute, point
by point, the various allegations made
during the Senate hearings, press confer­ences,
and elsewhere, this present effort
will address that task. Also, other
pertinent inconsistancies will be resolved
as they become relevant to the Watergate
affair.
Dean Machine
Mr. Nixon has consistently claimed
that he had no advance knowledge of the
Watergate break-in or of the subsequent
cover-up. He has implied that the office
of the President is unquestionably above
the everyday world of political espionage
and that he, as President, was totally
devoted to running the affairs of the
Nation. Accordingly Mr. Nixon has con­tended
that it was Mr. John Dean who
devised and perpetrated the devious
cover-up. This argument certainly has a
convincing ring. Obviously the planning
and work involved in renovating and
redecorating San Clemente and Key
Biscayne must have involved the Presi­dent
in months of concentrated effort.
The only remaining question is why, Dean
was selected to run the country rather
than Mr. Agnew. Perhaps Mr. Agnew was
too busy in Maryland.
Satisfied with Mr. Nixon's defense, we
can move on to investigate Dean's situa­tion.
Obviously Dean is lying. After all,
he is not the President. Nevertheless, to
satisfy our ever-active consciences, we
should attempt to uncover some sort of
motive behind Dean's perjury. Dean
undoubtedly realizes that his actions may
add years to his forthcoming jail sentence
and that he may have ruined a promising
law career. But one should quickly realize
that some sinister minds would risk any­thing
to join the ranks of such famous
Americans as Alger Hiss and Benedict
Arnold. In addition, any opportunity to
fool those gullible Democrats would hold
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irresistable appeal for a person in Dean's
position and of his political persuasion.
We might add that any testimony from
such diverse sources as L. Patrick Gray,
James McCord, and Henry Peterson,
seeming to corroborate Dean's conten­tions,
should be viewed skeptically in
light of remarks made by such honorable
and distinguished aides as Messrs. H. R.
Haldeman and John Erhlichman.
Credibility Galore
When we realize that the Congress and
the American press corps are for the most
part incorrigible Democrats and inveter­ate
Nixonbaiters, we must caution against
the usefulness of anything they may
have to say on the subject of Watergate.
For example, we have never heard
Sam Ervin or Walter Cronkite vow to
carryon with "God's help" as Mr. Nixon
has. This fact, in itself, is enough to
negate all criticisms of alleged presidential
involvement in the cover-up and other
illegal activities. There are, however, even
more substantial reasons.
First, if Mr. Nixon's name were Ted
Kennedy, we of course would have suf­ficient
cause for doubting his credibility,
and as a result his innocence. To date no
concrete evidence has established this
fact.
Second, as the President and his
associates suggest, the Ellsberg break-in
was perfectly justified under the auspices
of national security. As Mr. Nixon indi­cated
in his speech of August 15, street
rioting in the mid-1960's is perfectly
relevant to national security today. We
should further note that last year volumes
containing portions of the Pentagon
Papers were available in the Bethel Book­store.
Consequently we feel that the
White House should look into this matter
as well. The students at Bethel could use
this sort of protection.
Third, John Mitchell has testified that
he did not alert the President concerning
the coverup because he recognized that
Mr. Nixon "would have hit the ceiling."
Despite statements by crazy Martha to
the contrary, we put our trust in John
whose only crime appears to have been
his constant devotion to the Leader. The
fact that Messrs. Nixon and Mitchell were
onetime best friends should in no way
cast aspersions that Mitchell would lie to
protect the President now and seek a
pardon for himself later.
Finally, the mere fact that the Presi­dent,
in collusion with the Pentagon,
chose to carryon a massive air war in
Cambodia for four years (deceiving a
public which would have strenously
objected) should not cause us to waiver
in our faith. The American public is
perfectly able to recognize that all pos­sible
Administration deception available
was mustered for the Cambodian effort.
Subsequently, none was left for such
matters as unjustified spying or coverup
schemes.
The People's Choice
We must make an appeal for fairness.
If an administration is characterized by
spying and other illegal activities, it does
not necessarily follow that there are cor­rupt
personnel (with the exception of
John Dean) in that administration. It
should be obvious that illegal and un­ethical
actions come, in the present case,
from overzealous and dedicated people
rather than corrupt people. The American
press should be vilified for making any
unjustified allegations against a President
who received one of the largest election
day mandates in American history,
George Gallup notwithstanding.
A President who has achieved inter­national
rapport with the Red Giants,
China and the Soviet Union, and "Peace
with Honor" in Vietnam should not be
bothered with "small, vicious, murky,
unimportant little things" such as Water­gate.
The Senate Committee remains as
the thorn in the President's side. Yet,
here at Bethel College a solution is in
offing. J. & B. suggest that if Mr. Nixon
can convince the man on the street that
the price of meat will fall if Sam Ervin
will layoff Watergate, the hearings will
come to an early conclusion.
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Symposium I:
Conscientious Christianity
This year the Clarion will incorporate
Symposium, an issues discussion forum,
into a bi-weekly feature. To encourage
student body participation in this forum,
the Clarion wishes to solicit topics and
essays from the student body at large.
Topics ranging from the strictly spiritual
to academic or even strictly secular will
be accepted if a clear relationship to the
college community exists. All entries or
comments can be directed to the editor at
p.o. 91 or 820.
At the start of the academic year it is
most useful to pause and seriously con­sider
long-range goals. For this reason the
Clarion has asked three prominent yet
distinct faculty members to render their
thoughts on the matter. Looking forward
we reflect first upon our past and deter­mine
to preserve the most rewarding ele­ments
of it. What areas of Christian
higher education need to be reaffirmed?
Which values are eternal, unchanging, and
as a result, desirable for the Bethel
community? How can personal growth be
accelerated and enriched? Equally impor­tant,
what other considerations (however
unfamiliar) may also carry crucial bearing
for a student's consistent witness? It is,
then, in the spirit of a more unified
student body that we embark on the
questions at hand as a basis upon which
to build a truly meaningful Christian
dialogue.
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by Maurice Lawson, Campus Pastor
A Christian liberal arts college is a bold
undertaking, and for it to succeed is most
rare. On the one hand are the large
number of private colleges and universi­ties
that have failed in that they have lost
the Christian faith that once was their
reason for being. On the other hand are
the more recently established Christian
colleges that nervously guard their faith
but fail to be liberal arts. How many
colleges can you name that are truly
Christian and truly liberal arts?
But the people of the Baptist General
Conference believe that it is both
desirable and possible to succeed. And we
who are parts of Bethel concur.
The problem, it seems to me, is that
we tend to want easy and final answers to
our questions. The Christian part of us
says our answers come from God. The
liberal arts part of us says they come
from man. We assume there is a conflict
and choose which voice we will listen to
and reject the other.
Actually, the mature man must be
willing to live in tension. Only the drawn
bow can shoot a straight arrow. There is
the tension between the conviction that
Christ is the truth and "in Him are hid all
the treasures of wisdom ... ", and the
rational, scientific approach. There is the
tension between the need to call men
from sin and death to eternal life in
Christ, and the pressing, immediate needs
of man in his earth life. There is the call
on the one hand to "deny ourselves, take
up our cross and follow · Jesus", and the
assurance that God "has given us all
things to enjoy." There is the conflict
between freedom and responsibility.
Failure to acknowledge the legitimate
existence of these tensions results in
settling for half truths which is altogether
error. We fall into antagonistic groups­the
intellectuals and the spiritual, the
pleasure-lovers and the ascetics, the
socially concerned and the soul-winners.
And we compartmentalize our own lives,
living at various times and occasions in
room that bear those labels. And we
become a Bible college or a secular
college.
The better way, it seems to me, is the
way we are trying to approach the
problem at Bethel. We begin as Christians
with the convicton that this is God's
world, and therefore a universe-that
when all the facts are known truth will
be seen to have one face. Then we assume
the posture of zealous but humble
learners. We do all we can to increase our
knowledge of God and His ways and His
world through consistent study of the
Word of God, and through the cultivation
of our experience and knowledge of Him
through the enjoyment of His presence
and obedience to His will. At the same
time, we study the world in which we
live, and man both as an individual and
in society, and the wisdom of man both
past and present. Willing to live often in
the tension that comes from acknow­ledging
truth in apparently conflicting
propositions, reJOicmg in the occasions
when harmony is achieved, we study to
show ourselves approved unto God. And
in the process we find a deeper unity
within ourselves and within our campus.
In all of this, our perfect example is
Jesus.
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by Robert A. Carlsen
Assoc. Prof. of Physics
What areas of Christian higher educa­tion
need to be reaffirmed? One principle
of "examinationmanship" is: "If you
don't understand the question, write your
own interpretation of the original
problem statement and then proceed to
answer it." Therefore, one might contem­plate
education, increase its dimension­ality
by adjoining the adjective Christian,
and then ask if this additional considera­tion
makes a difference. This is from a
perspective of twenty years of profes­sional
life, the last five being committed
to Bethel. The bias, obviously, is from
that of a physical scientist.
An education is, more than anything
else, a discipline of the central nervous
system (i.e. the brain) and sometimes the
supportive anatomy which allows one the
facility to grind it out even when it hurts.
This means the acquisition and mainte­ance
of skills at least at parity with one's
associates, the ability as well as desire to
synthesize fragmentary and seeming
unrelated facets of past technical experi­ence
into the context of the present
problem, and a confidence that allows for
the ferreting out of results and conclu­sions
once they boil to the surface. Also,
implicit in all of this, is an understanding
of the ground rules of the scientific com­munity
of which you are a member.
For example, don't extrapolate the
prestige earned in one area to another,
avoid taking credit for subordinate's
work, don't fudge experimental data, and
many other conventions that must be
followed by both Christian and secular
scientist alike.
The Christian scientist brings to all of
this a quality of life, which is reflected by
the fact that his ultimate loyalty is not,
say, to the Copenhagen interpretation of
quantum mechanics but rather the
Christian gospel and the claims of Christ
on his life. Does it make a difference?
One would hope so. Just as a Christian
teacher should be kind to his students
and cooperative with his associates per­haps
what it means to be a Christian
physicist is to be able to stand in the
cross currents between the pure mathe­maticians
on the one hand and the
rna thematics users (physicists, engi­neers,
... ) on the other and thereby
contribute to healing the antagonism
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between these two groups of people.
There is no basis, at least to this practi­tioner,
to support the claim that a
Christian scientist will be given special
insight but he will be blessed with the
knowledge that the issues of life are not
totally bound up in his discipline.
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by G. William Carlson
Asst. Prof. of Political Science
The term "Bethel community" is
often used to describe the nature of the
relationships between faculty and stu­dents
and between students and students.
Much of the time I feel it is artificially
used to manufacture a concept of rela­tionships
which are not there and prob­ably
never will be. It often includes:
avoidance of divergent viewpoints, con­sensus
of leadership and direction,
minimization of academic involvement and
the primacy of spiritual experiences,
minimization of academic risk-taking and
conformity to an interpretation of the
life-style implications of the Christian
faith. It assumes that we can have "com­munity"
by avoiding and eliminating
involvement with all those issues which
demand uniqueness in perception.
We are not a church and we are not
enjoying a "camp-type" mountain top
experience. We are an association of
scholars who bring to the campus unique
personalities, varied commitments to
academic interests and distinct percep-tions
of the true meanings of the Christ
experience. The forced "community"
perception of our relationships may tend
to create artificial divisions on the
campus. A sense of community may
come out of a voluntary, joyous expres­sion
of each other. If it does, be glad and
rejoice in the time in which it occurs.
Don't try to prolong it and don't expect
it to be the mainstream characteristic of
human relationships. Since the sense of
community is not available to most of
us, let me suggest some principles which
may help make more meaningful our
relationships as committed Christian
scholars.
First, each of us must be willing to use
enough self-discipline to be able to in­crease
in learning and thereby have some­thing
to communicate. This involves
serious interaction with all sources of
learning and a willingness to search out
the implications of what we know.
Second, each of us must develop a
sense of integrity toward ourselves, our
academic pursuits and to others. The
issue of integrity has numerous implica­tions.
Let me say simply that I use the
term to refer to a willingness to expose
that part of yourself and your know­ledge
which is helpful to the mutual
growth of people to whom you are
relating. This demands that the recipient
also reciprocate and respect the value of
the life shared.
Third, there needs to be developed a
tolerance of different personalities and
viewpoints each of which must be
seriously searched and analyzed. Often,
we have the good ability to isolate the
weak points of divergent positions and
thereby assert a basis from which to
reject the mainstream implications of the
divergent positions. Tolerance demands a
respect for other's uniqueness and the
development of serious dialogue based on
mutual concern and understanding.
Fourth, we need to search out the
ethical implications of our religious com��mitments
and encourage each other to act
in light of the answers we find. To my
mind it is this last principle which pro­vides
us the basis of meeting together as
an association of scholars. We are com­mitted
scholars who must face questions
that the secular community may not find
it essential to ask. However, in order to
ask the ethical questions well, we must
take seriously the first three principles.
To what end? I think if we adopt these
principles we will have a more meaningful
relationship with each other. Let us not
force community on ourselves. Let us
develop instead a series of life-style
principles which allow us to respect and
encourage our uniqueness as Christian
persons. Let us become prophetic
witnesses to a world without Christ.
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Soccer's new coach inspires team
by Pam Schultz
"My head feels like a marshmallow
when practice is over, but he's great,"
Steve Jergenson, Bethel Junior, said
about Juan Salas, Bethel's new soccer
coach. And one can see why when sitting
through a typical soccer practice and
warm-up. The short Bolivian coach keeps
the team moving from beginning to end
with various drills. And he is there among
them, participating as strenuously in the
discipline as they are.
"He works us like a professional team
because he is a professional," commented
Peter Genheimer, Bethel Junior. Mr. Salas
has a ten year record as a professional
soccer player in Bolivia. He is currently a
member of the Minnesota Soccer Referee
Association. Add to this a college degree
in Physical Education and you have a
man who is well qualified to lead the new
varsity soccer team to victory.
Mr. Salas would be the first to admit
that there will be challenges facing the
new Bethel team. "We have a special
problem," he said in English heavily
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accented with Spanish tones. "The season
is a short one, two months, and we have
an even shorter practice season. Many of
our state-wide boys have not had the
background in soccer playing that is
necessary. "
He would like to see a program started
at Bethel in which players could practice
three, four or five months a year. This
would allow for B teams and an enhanced
interest in the game of soccer.
Steve Voth, the team's captain, ad­mitted
that this year's team may not be
as good individually, as that of last year.
One of the reasons for this is the loss of
four good players: Joel Goff, John
Landberg, Dick Voth and Jon Nordstrom
(who was voted best goalie in the state
last year).
Even yet, Bethel has many assets. A
good percentage of the team is composed
of students from other countries who
have played soccer from childhood.
Salas is confident of the team. He
commented that the offense appears
strong. Morale this year is high. Steve
Jergenson gave credit for this to the
coach. "He works us hard but he cares
about us". Steve went on to tell of an
experience at the first practice. "We were
really dead after that first practice but he
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had us stand all in line for a few minutes.
Then he went down the row and talked to
each of us individually."
Juan Salas and his wife and children
are very active in the Spanish speaking
ch urch connected with Be thlehem
Baptist. Mr. Salas commented that he
knew as a friend in Argentina one of the
men who first began the church. They
helped to organize it and the Salas family
continues to attend there.
When asked wqat brought him to the
United States and Minnesota in partiCUlar
Juan Salas laughed. "Well," he said
smiling, "My wife lived up here before we
were married. She came down to Bolivia
on vacation, where we met. And when we
decided to marry she said that I had to
come back up here with her."
"We want to do our best for soccer
and our best for Bethel," said Juan Salas.
"I expect a good year."
The team expects a good year, too.
One of their reasons is Juan Salas. As
Steve Voth commented, "He is excel­lent.
"
New Soccer players will be: Hideo
Nishihata, Tefen Fufa, Tim Leafblad,
Mike Floding, Scott Smith, Tim Herzoog,
Len Alberg, Pete Wilson, Dave Mortenson,
Paul Lentz. Those coming back: Steve
Jergenson, Steve Voth, Dan Leafblad,
Dan Anderson, Jeff Smicale, Thomas
Heinmetz, Alan Vogel, Peter Genheimer.
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saturday
by W. T. Hanley
This season's cross-country team
promises to be one of the strongest in
years. Coach Gene Glader acknowledges
that a tough schedule is in store for the
runners, but that he still sees a good
year ahead.
"We've got five of the six strongest
runners from last year's squad returning,
as well as five new Freshmen," said the
coach.
He looks for three of the new
members in particular to be superior
squad members.
"Scott Anderson, John Cox and Larry
Caldwell all should prove to be real assets
to this year's team. They can really help
to round out the squad," he explained.
The first official test of this year's
runners comes tommorrow in a contest
with Augsburg, Carleton, Macalester and
Luther Colleges. Meet time is 11 a.m. at
the Como Park Course.
I. M. ACTION
by Dean Erickson
A wise old sage once declared, "Old
high school 'jocks' never die, they merely
evolve into college intramural zealots".
Surely the phophet's words have been
fulfilled in the Bethel College intramural
program. While affording opportunities
for former prep stars to extend their
athletic careers, the intramural program
also provides for those lacking in
organized sports experience an occasion
for athletic participation.
The ideal of 100% participation by
college students is of prime importance to
the intramural staff. While male college
students comprise the bulk of the
participants, the intramural program has
developed to include competetive
activities for women as well. Intramural
participation also extends to the facilty
and staff as they have consistently fielded
competitive teams.
The move to the Arden Hills campus
has implied another important goal. Dee
Traudt, intramural student supervisor
commented, "The intramural program
will try to make use of all the new
facilities the new campus affords." The
spacious gymnasium and the excellent
handball courts, as well as the wide open
spaces of the campus, offer support to
this goal.
A most radical departure from
intramural tradition has been necessitated
by Bethel's move to the Arden Hills
campus. The basis for team membership
has shifted from primarily Edgren dormi­tory
teams to residencies including both
campuses as well as off-campus. Thus, an
almost wholesale shift of team personnel
has resulted. The ten teams based on new
residency requirements include: Town­house
No. 1 (townhouses J and K),
Townhouse No.2 (townhouses Land M),
Townhouse No.3 (townhouses I and N),
Edgren No. 1 (floors 1 and 3), Edgren
No.2 (floor 2), Hagstrom, New Dorm,
Faculty, Off-Campus No. 1 (those living
south of 1-694), and Off-Campus No.2
(those living north of 1-694). Alas, but no
more will cries of "wipe Third Old!" arise
from the lips of Second Newer's, nor will
the meticulously-built well-oiled machine
of Second Old flawlessly function.
Along with a revised format of teams,
the 1973-74 intramural program will
provide several innovative features. The
initial change to be encountered this fall
will be in the transition from touch foot­ball
to flag football. A more wide-open
style of play, increased scoring and
greater ease in offioiating were the basic
reasons for the alteration according to
Traudt and Paul Reasoner, assistant
supervisor. Also, after much deliberation
the "sleeper" play has been deemed legal
and should add eye-opening excitement
to the game. Homecoming this fall will
offer a classic gridiron clash, as the
intramural All-Stars of years past will
challenge the All-Stars of the present
season on October 20, 8 :30 A.M.
Basketball, the most popular intra­mural
activity, will begin November 19.
The earlier first semester opening wHl be
a departure from the usual second
semester scheduling of the past several
years. The intramural basketball season
will be augmented by extramural contests
featuring Bethel intramural All-Stars
opposing like teams from Hamline,
Concordia and Augsburg colleges in a
Bethel-hosted tourney. Upon completion
of the intercollegiate basketball season,
an open intramural basketball league with
teams sponsered by varsity basketball
players should materialize.
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by Curt Kregness
The Bethel Royals bowed to Macalester Saturday in their
first regular season football contest. Although Bethel held the
edge in statistics, Macalester capitalized on four interceptions and
one Bethel fumble to win the game 30-3.
The Royals scored in the first three minutes of the game
when they recovered a Macalester fumble on the first play after
the opening kickoff. A field goal attempt was good, and put the
Royals ahead 3-0.
Later in the first quarter, as the Royals were forced to punt,
a high snap from center got away from the punter, and Macalester
recovered the ball deep in Bethel's territory. Macalester scored
their first touchdown on the next play, but failed their point­after
attempt, to make the score 6-3.
In the second quarter, Macalester scored three touchdowns
with the help of an interception and a recovered Royals' fumble.
Their fifth touchdown came in the third quarter, several plays
after intercepting another Bethel pass.
The Royals had trouble keeping the ball and making the
crucial play, in spite of snaring two Macalester fumbles and one
pass. Bethel gained 17 first downs to Macalester's 8, but was
unable to move the ball into scoring position after their first
quarter field goal.
The Royals' next game is at Bethel against Dakota Wesleyan,
Saturday at 1 :30.
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by John Merritt
Is it possible to lose 30 to 3 and still be a winner? Let's face
the facts. Bethel has a physically stronger and bigger team this
year. However, we still do not match up ounce to ounce with
many of our opponents. But who will be the winner this season­the
200 pound Bethel lineman who puts out all of his 100%
ability the whole game or his 225 pound opponent who only has
to put out 50% because of his physical advantage and whose team
is able to compile more points on the scoreboard?
You can be sure that the Bethel players were giving 100%
last Saturday evening against Mac, and because of this they were
winners. Why did the scoreboard seem to deny this fact? There
are many factors involved in the game of football. Breaks very
often win a game. Obviously the breaks were not to Bethel's
advantage Saturday evening, but I'm not making excuses and
neither is Coach Reynolds. He'll tell you the simple truth which
many people don't understand: the same amount of effort goes
into a ball game whether you win or lose.
I know of one guy who has as strong a desire to win as
anybody. I don't know if you noticed who led the charge of the
defense Saturday evening onto the field with a clenched fist held
high in the air and screams of high-spirited determination. It was
just the kind of guy I've been talking about - a guy who gives
100% and who played an outstanding opening game. Because of
his physically small frame for a lineman (180 pounds), he tells
me that rigorous physical conditioning' has been a part of his life.
This summer he worked out consistently for two hours every
morning running sprints wearing ankle weights for quickness,
running the mile for endurance, and lifting weights for overall
strength. Yes, Fred Witzgall knows the discipline it takes to be an
athlete giving 100%. You'll see more of him this season making
bruising tackles and sporting sparkling defensive plays. Fred's a
winner at what he does.
You see, the Bethel players have learned to believe in each
other. The other ten guys on defense know that Fred at 180
pounds will do his job as right tackle even against a guy with a 40
pound advantage. This is what binds a team together and the
Royals have this spirit. Everyone likes to win - it's much tougher
to lose - and the people hardest hit by this are the players. No one
can say the Royals are losers. This Saturday let's see Dakota
Wesleyan bite the dust.
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